Amusing footage from Oregon of a man going down a shopping mall escalator the wrong way on skis while wearing a Santa Claus hat.

The video, captured in a mall in Portland on December 2016, has recently emerged online and shows the man sliding down an escalator and entering an H&M fashion store.

''Fred knows some sales are too hot to miss so once those doors open and stuff starts flying off the rack, he heads from the mountains to the malls to make sure he gets this seasons hottest deals,'' the filmer later wrote online.

Some sales are too hot to miss. Fred knows this so once those doors open and stuff starts flying off the rack, he heads from the mountains to the malls to make sure he gets this seasons hottest deals.